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ohh, wait... i just opened window and pigs don't fly, not to mention hell is not frozen either. android gaming device with small screen and made out of 2 parts to be portable... what will they think of next? i can just imagine NVidia R&D in this situationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCITMfxvEc

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NVIDIA announced this morning their new Shield Tablet and Shield Controller. The new Shield Tablet is a $299 Android tablet that's great for gaming and is mighty powerful with using the Tegra K1 SoC...

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Why would a laptop fit on your lap, but this tablet, with an inbuilt stand that has a position exactly for that purpose, not?
Did you even watch the video or had a look at their website?

Ever put a tablet on your lap? They are unstable as hell due to the small size of the stand and location of all of the weight. Compare that to a laptop, where the bulk of the weight is in the bottom section which is just as large as the light screen making it far more stable.

By your logic you can't find a NES game which don't run well on the Nintendo Entertainment System so you could just as well be done with it because obviously nothing better is needed.

I don't even, what?

The point is that why talk about it's amazing power when your best example are games that were made 10 years ago. Games that already exist on PC, on nearly every OS available on PC including Linux? To play first person shooter games on a gamepad. There's a reason why the Nvidia Shield is best known for playing emulators, cause that's the best library of games you'll get on that device. Android doesn't have a library of games worth to dump $200+ on a device that can't even make phone calls. My three year old phone could do what these Nvidia devices can do, given that HL2 and Portal weren't restricted to Nvidia hardware.

Do I need to do it? Fine I will. Nvidia, baby, you need to make an x86 CPU to be taken serious for gaming. ARM will never get a library of games that will show off your graphics. Don't care what it takes to get x86 support. Get sued by Intel or whatever. They need x86.